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Maitland, Alfred Sydney Frederick, 16th Earl of Lauderdale, son of the Hon. Sydney George William Maitland (q.v.); b. April 27, 1904; adm. Jan. 17, 1918 (R); left July 1921; Sidney Sussex Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1922; B.A. 1925; ordained deacon 1927, priest 1928 (Lichfield); Curate of Fenton, Staffs 1927-31, St. James, Wednesbury, Staffs 1931-2, All Saints, Sidley, Sussex 1932-7, Stoke-on-Trent 1937-9, Beene, Sussex 1939-53 and Woodham, Surrey 1953-6; Rector of Catsfield, Sussex since 1957; succeeded as 16th Earl of Lauderdale Feb. 17, 1953; m. 1st Aug. 6, 1938, Norah Mary, daughter of William Henry La Touche; 2nd June 4, 1940, Irene Alice Mary, daughter of the Rev. Charles Parry Shipton, Rector of Halsham, Yorks.; d. 27 Nov. 1968.

Magnus-Allcroft, Sir Philip, Bt (known at school as Philip Montefiore Magnus), son of Laurie Magnus and Dora, d. of Sir Isidore Spielman Kt; b. 8 Feb. 1906; adm. May 1919 (R); left July 1924; Wadham Coll. Oxf., matric. 1925, BA 1928, MA 1956; succeeded his grandfather as 2nd. Bt 29 Aug. 1933; civil service 1928-33 and 1946-51; RA 1939-42, transf. lntell. Corps May 1942 (Maj.), served Iceland and Italy 1942-5; assumed additional surname of Allcroft 1951; Shropshire CC 1952, County Alderman 1968; JP 1953-71; Trustee Nat. Portrait Gallery; Free­man City of London; a Busby Trustee 1969-85; CBE 1971; FRSL FRHistS; a biographer, author of Edmund Burke 1939, Gladstone 1954, Kitchener 1958, King Edward VII 1963; m. 14 July 1943 Jewell, d. of Herbert John Allcroft of Onibury, Shropshire; d. 21 Dec. 1988.

Madden, Terence Henderson, son of Henry Dacre Madden, gas engineer, of Cardiff and Jessie, d. of Walter Cressell of Hampstead; b. 19 Jan. 1907; adm. Jan. 1921 (R); left July 1923; a jun. engineer Cardiff Gas Light & Coke Co.; m.; d. 12 May 1953.

MacPhail, Angus Roy, son of Angus MacPhail, of Blackheath, Kent, by Fanny Maud, daughter of Otto Karlowa, of Lewisham; b. April 8, 1903; adm. May 2, 1917 (R); left Easter 1921; Trin. Hall, Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1921; B.A. 1925; secretary Commission III of the International Confederation of Students Jan. 1, 1926; Script editor, Gainsborough Pictures, 1926; screenwriter and scenario editor responsible for several internationally famous films; for some time in charge of the script dept. of the M. of I. during Great War II; d. April 22, 1962; unm.

MACNEILL, DUNCAN, third son of Alexander Macneill, Colonsay, Argyllshire, and Anne Elizabeth, dau. of John Carstairs, Stratford Green, Essex; b. 10 Jul 1836; adm. 22 Jun 1848 (Rigaud's); Cornet, 2nd Dragoons 23 Sep 1853; Lieut., 15 Dec 1854; Capt., 17 Jul 1857; retd. 2 Sep 1862; served in Crimea 1854-5; Chief Constable, Yorkshire West Riding 1869-76; m. 6 Jun 1861 Fanny Charlotte Emma, second dau. of Adm. Sir Charles Talbot KCB; d. 10 Jun 1924.

MacManus, Nicholas Strong, brother of James Niall Manus MacManus (qv); b. 10 Feb. 1945; adm. Sept. 1958 (R); left Dec. 1962; d. 15 Mar. 1966.

MacManus, Diarmuid Arthur Maurice, brother of Desmond Manus MacManus (q.v.); b. Nov. 22, 1891; adm. Sept. 28, 1905 (R); left Dec. 1910; R. M.C. Sandhurst; 2nd Lieut. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers March 13, 1912; Lieut. Feb. 19, 1914; wounded July 3, 1915; placed on half-pay owing to ill health Feb. 15, 1917; Lieut. R.A.F., acting Capt. April 1, 1918; served in the Dardanelles 1915; wounded at Gallipoli May 1915; Recruiting Staff R.A.F. Sept. 1917 - May 1919; Trin. Coll. Dublin 1919; an officer in the Free State Army 1922-7; farmed in County Longford 1928-38; founded the Lancegaye Safety Glass (Ireland) Co. Ltd. 1938; served in the Civil Defence, London, 1942-5; author of The Middle Kingdom (1960) on Irish Fairy lore; m. Sept. 6, 1922, Kathleen Redfern, daughter of Sir William Henry Thompson, K. B. E., M.D., Professor of Institutes of Medicine, Trin. Coll., Dublin; d. 1990.

MacManus, Desmond Manus, son of Leonard Strong MacManus, M. D., of Kiltimagh, co. Mayo, by Julia, daughter of Robert Boyd, of Howth, co. Dublin; b. July 15, 1888; adm. Sept. 26, 1901 (R); left Easter 1907; Guy's Hospital; M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. 1914; M.B. and B. S. (Lond.) 1923; practised in London; Pres. Chelsea Clinical Soc. 1939-46; Pres. Harveian Soc. 1948-9; Cdr. Ven. Order St. John and Jerusalem 1956; served in Great War I; Capt. R.A.M.C. Jan. 21, 1916; m. April 16, 1914, Gladwyn Lesley Mary, daughter of Edward Aman, of Farnham; d. 1968.

MacGregor, Malcolm Eliot, son of Malcolm Evan MacGregor, Dir. Wellcome Entomological Field Laboratory, of Cobham, Surrey, and Marguerite, d. of D. Muncey of Washington DC, USA; b. 13 Sept. 1916; adm. Jan. 1930 (R); left July 1933; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., MB 1938; Surgn-Lieut. RN 1939-45; MRCP 1943, MD 1946, FRCP 1961; specialist RN medical service; consult. paediatrician South Warks area; retd NHS 1977; m. 18 Nov. 1944 Marigold Ancred, d. of Charles Sculthorpe Morris CVO MRCS, Sergeant Surgeon-Dentist to the King; d. 21 Dec. 2013.

MacGregor, Gerald Alexander, brother of Malcolm Eliot MacGregor (qv); b. 1 Feb. 1921; adm. Sept. 1933 (R); left July 1937; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., MB MRCS LRCP 1943; Surgn-Lieut RN (short service commission) May 1944, retd June 1947; MRCP 1946, MD 1948; sen. Regis­trar and Tutor Post-grad. Med. Sch., Hammersmith Hosp., later consult. physician Guildford group of hospitals; m. May 1953 Christine Mary, d. of Kevin Doyle Atteridge MRCS; d. 29 Dec. 1996.